Meghana is a Senior Data Analyst in the Epidemiology for Policy and Practice (EPP) Group at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health. She supports research on cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

She is an expert in Statistics and its applications. Her prior experience includes a wide range of analytics projects related to Ecology, Market research and Public Health. She has extensively worked on the analysis of large-scale cohort and administrative data and modelling of longitudinal data. She also has experience in teaching various courses related to statistics at the undergraduate level.

She is currently involved in a project aiming to improve the CVD risk assessment and screening for the Australian Population. She is also a part of the prospective Health Data Analytics Platform (HDAP) - a new initiative aligned with the College of Health and Medicine’s 10-year Strategic Plan (known as TRANSFORM).